子

子 is a Japanese kanji written with 3 strokes, listed here under the keyword “child”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 99. It appears as a component in 20 other characters in this index.

Keyword: child
RTK frame: 99
Strokes: 3
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading): シ, ス, ツ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading): こ, -こ, ね
Script: Japanese kanji
Also known as: children, ребёнок
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi: 子 offspring

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

Characters that contain 子

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